Keychron K2 HE Concrete Edition Review: Rock-Solid Typing

The stabilizers are PCB-mounted, which is preferable to the emblematic plate-mounted units that galore keyboards use, and are lubricated from the factory. The lube connected these stabilizers, portion a spot excessive (there were tiny clumps of lube disposable connected the extracurricular housings, which is not typical), feels great. The stabilized keys are creaseless and consistent, with nary audible rattling oregon sticking erstwhile typing.

But arsenic it turns out, the top downside of this keyboard is, also, the worldly choice. As overmuch arsenic unsealed, earthy factual is quirky and fun, it is yet a utilitarian material: It’s heavy, has an inconsistent texture, and stains easily. During my clip with this keyboard, it gathered rather a fewer smudges and stains, astir each of which had unknown-to-me origins. Maybe they came from cleaning sprays, oregon from thing connected my hands, but I honestly person nary clue. Depending connected your perspective, this tin beryllium a flaw oregon a bonus. What immoderate see dirty, others volition spot arsenic “patina.” But arsenic idiosyncratic who likes keeping their electronics squeaky-clean for arsenic agelong arsenic possible, it’s decidedly a spot of a bummer to me.

(Being concrete, I would presume determination are dozens of ways to get astir immoderate stain retired of this keyboard, specified arsenic a powerfulness washer oregon a tin of brake cleaner. However, I didn’t person the gumption to effort it retired for myself, and arsenic such, I can’t warrant that it’s possible.)

Gaming connected Granite

Despite my aggregate complaints astir Keychron’s all-ceramic keyboard, I was inactive fond of the Tunneling Magnetoresistance (TMR) switches inside. They were innovative, functional, and novel, with notable advantages implicit modular Hall Effect (HE) switches. Because of that, I was amazed to spot this keyboard going backmost to modular HE switches. They’re inactive large switches, of course, but going backmost to an inferior enactment for a likewise unsocial keyboard doesn’t rather marque consciousness to me.

Regardless, these switches are inactive awesome by immoderate different modular of comparison. They consciousness smooth, person a tenable weight, drawback backmost rapidly erstwhile pressed. This keyboard some feels bully to benignant on, and is responsive capable for gaming, particularly with the 1,000 Hz polling rate.